Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Prologue: Part 2 I don't think I've said this on the site before, but this Gombie comic wasn't originally intended as a comic strip. Rather it's what became of a failed Gombie Flash movie/game series. A really ambitious project where there was going to be full animation and voice acting plus score. I had selected music for every scene. I dont think I have the script anymore but I remember scenes with Gombie tended to have the Megaman X OC Remix "Sigmatism" playing. And if this project would have gone forward you would have manually played all the fights in the story as Goonie. I tried decently hard to learn Flash. If anyone's actually been around this long somebody might actually remember that pointless "Goomba Wars: Attack of the clones" flash game I made which was basically me adding to the basics of a Learn Flash tutorial. I'm afraid it was all doomed to failure as I dont have much of a head for coding. Design, I rock at. Coding and anything that involves lots of numbers I suck at. Why did I bring all this up? Because the strip you see before you and some of the others around the beginning were taken line for line from that original project script. That part where it says *insert Dr Mario virus killing sound effect* is straight out of the script, except of course I would have added the real sound effect there. Oh well, it still gets a laugh from people. By the way, those viruses you see are what the real AIDS virus looks like...I think. I looked it up on Google Image search back in the day. Gotta pay that extra attention to detail you know. I hope people pay attention to what the newspaper actually says in this strip because that's probably the funniest part of the whole thing. A lot of people tend to actually miss it and the irony that Goonie didn't actually cure AIDS and Gombie did. Since Herpes wasnt introduced in the original versions of this storyline, Gombie didn't originally have anyone to abuse and vent against. I personally think the whole Gombie dynamic works better with him around. And now I have to mention Buddha. Ugh If there's one thing I regret, it's the Buddha jokes. My friends still laugh at them, but damn. I know it's lame as hell. I hereby apologize to all Buddhists and promise Gombie will never mention Buddha again. I mean as of this point in comic making. I'm afraid he's going to mention it a few more times before chapter 1 is over. Remember when I said things stay as they were in the original version. The "Buddha jokes" also fell under this rule...but trust me, they're gone now. STUPID FACT: I considered using the tweezers and the microscope seen in this strip as possible extra things for Gombie to throw in Mugen. I also considered for very rarely Gombie would chuck out a "Carmell" statue, you know like Lei Lei/Hsien Ko's Akuma statue in Darkstalkers. PAINFUL FACT: Herpes isn't just a nickname. Herpes really does have Herpes on his mouth. It's also supposed to be responsible for his voice being nasally, though I'm pretty sure people who have real oral Herpes don't have nasally voices... - Carmell

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